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The Next Big Thing / November 19, 2004

The Next Big Thing

Friday, November 19, 2004
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    What to Make of a Season’s End

    Late night conversations about stereos, midday conversations about democracy in a 99¢ store, and an extended meditation on the mullet (the fish and the hair) from Florida’s panhandle. Also this week, poet Mark Strand, word mistress Erin McKean, mystery writer Donald Westlake, and jazz collaborators Don Byron and Jason Moran.

Sorry (or Not)

Host Dean Olsher considers a recent rash of apologies.

» Visit the Sorry Everybody website
» Visit the We're Not Sorry website

What You Get for 99¢

99 cents Hiba Dawood is visiting from Baghdad, and recently hit the streets looking for good bargains and good conversation. The Next Big Thing’s Julie Subrin came along for the ride.

Jazz Steps

Don Byron Master collaborators Don Byron (clarinet/tenor saxophone) and Jason Moran (piano) take apart jazz standards and then put them back together again. Host Dean Olsher sits in on one of their sessions. Produced by Matt Lieber.

Use It or Lose It, Part 2

Mystery writer Donald Westlake rises to word activist Erin McKean’s challenge: to use three all-but-obsolete words in his latest work. Produced by Julie Subrin.

Late Night in Stereo

The Next Big Thing’s Matt Lieber visits with Staten Island resident Al Pugliese, who, after his day job, stays up most nights listening to music as he repairs vintage Fisher stereos in his basement.

» Visit Al Pugliese's website

The Webern Variations

poem Autumn at its most autumnal, in a poem written and read by Mark Strand. Produced by Pejk Malinovski.

» Click for a larger image of the poem

Mullets

Sound artist Sherre DeLys went to Florida’s panhandle wondering what, if anything, might be the connection between the two things we call "mullet" – the haircut and the fish, both of them much-maligned. She didn’t necessarily get the answers she was looking for, but came away with the enough to make this rich soundscape of the place she’d visited.

One More Step

Jason Moran Another song from jazz collaborators Don Byron and Jason Moran.